Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Broadcasted on Saturday 19th March 2011
Tracklist & video at http://boilerroom.tv
(Thanx Happyyman!)

US campaigned heavy-handedly to help Israel escape UN war crimes probe: WikiLeaks

Leaked: 30,000 BP oil spill memos, emails and transcripts

BBC：艾未未专题纪录片（Ai Weiwei, Without Fear or Favor）

“Missing.
Call Chinese Ambassador to the US Zhang Yesui.
Demand the release of artist Ai Weiwei
202-495-2266.”

Paul Gallagher @'Dangerous Minds'

Japan's deadly game of nuclear roulette

Doctor Who actress Elisabeth Sladen dies

Bradley Manning moved to new prison

The US soldier accused of leaking a trove of secret government documents later published by the Wikileaks website is to be moved to a military prison in Kansas, officials have said.

Pte First Class Bradley Manning has been held pending court martial at a Marine Corps base in Virginia.
His transfer comes amid international criticism of his treatment.
His supporters say he has been confined to a cell for 23 hours a day and forced regularly to undress.
At a press conference at the Pentagon on Tuesday, defence department general counsel Jeh Johnson said he would be moved to a new pre-trial jail at Fort Leavenworth, in the state of Kansas, imminently.
Mr Johnson said the transfer should not be interpreted as a criticism of Pte Manning's treatment at the Marine base in Quantico.
Officials have denied Pte Manning has been mistreated, though last month a top US state department official, spokesman PJ Crowley, resigned after saying the military's treatment of the Wikileaks suspect was "ridiculous and counterproductive".
Pte Manning, an intelligence analyst who joined the US Army in 2007, is suspected of leaking 720,000 diplomatic and military documents, including a database of military records from the Iraq war, Afghan war records, classified diplomatic cables and other materials.
In the past year, Wikileaks has published troves of documents it titled the Iraq War Logs, the Afghan War Diary, and reams of secret US state department cables spanning five decades.
Pte Manning has been charged with using unauthorised software on government computers to download classified information and to make intelligence available to "the enemy", and other counts related to leaking intelligence and theft of public records.
@'BBC'

♪♫ Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Pocahontas

Four Tet - Glasshead (Output 1999)

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(Thanx Helen!)

Brian Eno - Glitch

Really liking this one... Looking forward to the record!

Pentangle to reform

Bert Jansch is back on the road and is lined up to play with Neil Young on his spring tour of the US. On top of this, Jansch has also announced that he will be teaming up with the original members of Pentangle to play a series of shows in the UK this summer. Dates and venues have not been announced, but you can follow Bert and Pentangle on Twitter, @bert_jansch and @PentangleBand.
@'The Wire'

The most honest URL ever???

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/utter-PR-fiction-but-people-love-this-shit-so-fuck-it-lets-just-print-it-2269573.html

Adrian Sherwood Interview

...A lot of what you did - and with you just saying before that the racial atmosphere was a lot more tense in the early 80s, and you were mixing up punk and reggae and black and white artists - had an inherently political aspect. Did you see what you were doing as political?
AS: I think that reggae was carrying a political message because they were talking about sufferation, Garveyism, the back to African movement, pan-Africanism, the rasta thing, which was about the improvement of black people and the proudness of being black and the need for revolution. And over here you had the punk movement which was like 'I'm so bloody bored, can't we do what Guy Fawkes failed to do - blow up the place'... disenchanted white youth. And they were all kids who went to school together, and a lot of white kids were into reggae so it brought it all together. And on our front I had Mark Stewart, who was very politicised, and he had made The Pop Group albums, saying we tolerate mass murder, we're all prostitutes etc. By the time I was working with him and we were doing all his records which were all coming through On-U, and Tackhead after that... all that stuff was like news on the beat, as we called it. We were cutting up information, and Mark was our Gysin or Burroughs or something.
But I was brought up listening to the news in England, and you think 'Oh those poor Israelis how they're suffering' and you never heard anything about what they did to Palestine, or what went on. You were depoliticised from quite an early age in this country. But in the 70s there were loads of movements for workers' rights, the political situation... it was all put much more in your face, and it's only now I think we went through a gap for 20 years where I think people are comfortable with making money, they bought into the whole Thatcher thing. So I think with On-U, we were attempting to be as political as possible. I had to learn things - I learned lots of things off people about what really goes on. I didn't know the txtent of what goes on in the Middle East, about American Foreign Policy, the destabilising of governments like Nicaragua. I had to be taught that myself. I wasn't taught that by my parents or the school system...